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A front-page
New York Times story Saturday by Reid Epstein managed to pack in 18 hostile ideological labels into an 1,800-word story on a sadly familiar theme at the paper how far Texas is hurdling to “the right politically under GOP control in “Can Texas Turn Further Right? Top 2 Republicans Say It Can.”
The paper is running versions of this same story every week now, often on the front page, leading NewsBusters to make the same observation: Is there any room left “on the right” for Texas to move by now, since the state has supposedly been heading that way since at least 2009?
In Texas, Top Two Republicans Steer Ship of State Hard to the Right
Different in style and background, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have come together, for different reasons, to push an uncompromising conservative agenda.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, left, and Gov. Greg Abbott are behind one of the most far-right turns in recent Texas history.Credit.Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman, via Associated Press
July 17, 2021Updated 12:18 p.m. ET
One is a former State Supreme Court justice who acts with a lawyer’s caution; the other a Trumpist firebrand who began his political career in the world of conservative talk radio. They have sparred at times, most recently this winter over the deadly failure of their state’s electrical grid.
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